Carte Blanche 3 à un collectionneur - Bendana

Carte Blanche 3
à un collectionneur
Les mouches volent en carré
Sylvain Bourget | Julien Nédélec
Exhibition from 23 June to 24 July 2011
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CARTE BLANCHE 3 A UN COLLECTIONNEUR
Les mouches volent en carré
Sylvain Bourget I Julien Nédélec
Exhibition from June 23 to July 24, 2011
For its third « Carte Blanche », Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain asked Hervé Acker, amateur and collector of
contemporary art, to be the curator of the exhibition. He chose as artists Sylvain Bourget and Julien Nédélec, who
agreed to realize this group exhibition. Through a selection of videos, sculptures and drawings, both artists create a
dialogue rich in sense and originality.
Sylvain Bourget approaches his work with the eye of a documentarian. He gives up any system of pre-established
thought in relation to what he describes. He submits himself to the events as if the complexity of reality always
exceeds our capacity of understanding. Nothing spectacular or dangerous ; rather actions whose absurdness saves
from the commonness. Bourget’s artistic actions hold a poetic responsibility and a subversive potential.
Julien Nédélec, amateur of puzzles, does not look for their solutions, but for the problems. He chooses simplicity as
soon as things become complicated. He observes the forms of the world as ideal mathematical objects playing
equations. Julien Nédélec’s work encircles the outlines of forms and theories, cuts them and adjusts them as he
pleases. He then reassembles them to show an increased or even decreased reality.
Internet is an important source of inspiration to both artists. To the question put on the site http: // fr.answers.
yahoo.com « why do flies fly in a square pattern? « ; « undercover « answers that flies fly in geometrical patterns
while «fragnatic5930» explains that they fly in squares because they do not fly in triangular patterns. Even if it is not
very probable that dipterous have a particular tendency for geometry, our capacity to abstract from behavior to create
formal languages, may reveal something about our relationship to nature, culture and aesthetic notions.
In this exhibition, the works of Sylvain Bourget and Julien Nédélec coincide around an attentive study of the
phenomena and the harmless systems which are part of our everyday life.
Sylvain Bourget
1980
2003
2001
Born in Nantes, France
Works and lives in Bordeaux, France
DNSEP School of Fine Arts of Angoulême
DNAP School of Fine Arts of Angoulême
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2010
2009
2008
2007
Pegman, L’appart, Poitiers
Wheelchair Dance, L’ Appart, Poitiers
Épreuves de sobriété de terrain (FST), Monbazillac Castle, Monbazillac
Contests, Châteauroux Art School, Marcel Duchamp Middle School
Silly Walks, Monbazillac Castle, Monbazillac
Slapstick, Contemporary Art Centre, La Rochelle
Performers, André Brouillet Middle School, Couhé
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007 2006 2005 Les mouches volent en carré, Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
Ne jamais remettre à demain ce que l’on peut faire à une seule, La Graineterie,
Houilles
Des desseins animés, School of Fine Arts, Chateauroux
Pièce unique, Biennale of Young artisT, Moscou, Russia
55ème Salon de Montrouge
In vivo, in vitro, Espace Francois Miterrand, Périgueux
Modélisme, FRAC Limousin, Limoges
Collection(s), Comédie de Reims, Reims
Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris
Des dessins qui s’animent, IUFM of Tours, Tours
F for fake, Exprmntl gallery, Toulouse
Mon beau tapin, Phénix Fundation, Bordeaux
Performer, FRAC of Champagne Ardennes’ collection, Saint Dizier
Zéro et ses décimales, Kapital gallery, Chemnitz, Germany
Shining, Carreau Wendel Museum, Forbach
Ipso Facto gallery, Nantes
Jeunisme 2, FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims
PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS (selection)
Vidéo Spin (cup stacking), Chateauroux Museum
Help to Creation, DRAC Aquitaine
Help for material and installation, DRAC Poitou Charentes
Julien Nédélec
1982
2009
2007
Born in Rennes, France
Works and lives in Nantes, France
DNSEP School of Fine Arts, Nantes
DNAP School of Fine Arts, Angoulême
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2011
2009
Carré égal triangle, ACDC gallery, Bordeaux
La peau de l’ours, La Graineterie, Houilles
Le hasard fait bien mes choses, Entre-deux à Nantes
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2011
2010
2009
2008
Les mouches volent en carré, Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
RN 137, L’atelier, Nantes
L’exposition exposée, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Toute chose oblique, Bouliac
Mulhouse 010, Mulhouse
55ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge
Cuniculiculture, collectif La Mobylette, N’à qu’1 oeil, Bordeaux
Biennale de la Jeune Création, La Graineterie, Houilles
Le MOBarnum, collectif La Mobylette, N’à qu’1 oeil, Bordeaux
Ueno Town Museum Sustainable, Tokyo, Japan
Plus réel que l’herbe, Zoo Gallery, Nantes
Nantes cas 8 |, Estuaire 2009, St Nazaire
I.S.B.N, Aperto, Montpellier
Pris au dépourvu, La Petite Librairie, Brest
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cabinet du Livre d’artiste, Rennes
FMRA du Centre National des Estampes et Arts Imprimés, Chatou
Centre Des Livres d’Artistes, St Yrieix-la-Perche
Bibliothèque Nationale, prints department, Paris
PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS (selection)
Recipient for Mulhouse 010
Recipient for the Biennale de la Jeune Création’s prize of Houilles
Scholarship for création, Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire
Sylvain Bourget
Château de carte, 2011
Drawing on paper
120 x 80 cm
Courtesy BENDANA|PINEL Art Contemporain
Sylvain Bourget
Pegman, 2010
Wood, plexiglass, polystyrene, clothes pegs
160 x 50 x 50 cm
Courtesy BENDANA|PINEL Art Contemporain
Julien Nédélec
Les tactiques suisses, 2011
Topographic map of Switzerland, pins
87×66 cm
Courtesy BENDANA|PINEL Art Contemporain
Julien Nédélec
3D 2 2D 2 3D, 2008
7 painted wooden prisms
100x100x75 cm
Courtesy BENDANA|PINEL Art Contemporain